Inside Seasons Niseko, Mike Alexander’s luxury chalet in Japan with a celebrity clientele

Mar 12, 2026 – 5.00am

With a bit of notice, there’s nothing Mike Alexander won’t do for guests at his six-bedroom chalet, Seasons Niseko – and fair enough, when it costs more than $US30,000 ($42,300) a night. Like, for example, fly in four bottles of a hard-to-find French wine, worth $15,000 each, for a guest who refuses to drink anything else – then add it to the all-inclusive food and beverage arrangement.

No stranger to Australian skiers and snowboarders, Niseko is two hours from Sapporo on Japan’s northernmost island, Hokkaido. It’s famous for fluffy powder snow, blissful back country runs and views of Mount Yotei, nicknamed Ezo Fuji (Hokkaido’s Mount Fuji) by Japanese vacationers long besotted by its doppelganger charm. But before Seasons Niseko opened (it was previously Alexander’s holiday home and initially “never intended to be rented out”, says the former chief executive officer of Jefferies Group Asia), no such private homes to rent existed here.

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